Administration: Now North Korea is a threat again

posted at 12:04 pm on May 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Sometimes, we need a scorecard to keep up with the Obama administration’s positions on foreign policy and national security. The latest case of whiplash comes from the ping-pong position shifts on North Korea. When Pyongyang tested a long-range missile in April, Barack Obama called the DPRK a “regional threat” to security. Last weekend, he upgraded North Korea to a threat to global peace. Wednesday, though, Obama’s national security adviser James Jones dismissed Kim Jong-Il almost entirely, claiming that he poses no imminent threat to the US.

The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday at an international conference. …

His comments came amid growing concern across the globe over North Korea’s latest nuclear test and test-firings of short-range missiles.

On Friday, two Defense Department officials said the latest U.S. satellite imagery has spotted “vehicle activity” at a North Korean ballistic missile facility.

“North Korea’s nuclear program and actions constitute a threat to regional peace and security. We unequivocally reaffirm our commitment to the defense of our allies in the region,” Gates said in Singapore.

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Obama will fold the same as Clinton folded and Bush ignored the psycho runt. The runt with a pompadour will get more money, then he’ll be quiet for another 5-6 months, then start it all over again when the extortion cash is nearly gone.

Zerobama will do nothing. He’s scared crapless that he won’t get more loan guarantees from China if he messes Kim’s hair, and the last thing sock puppet wants to do is piss off his benefactors in China.

The real Gates must have been locked up and a look-alike has been put in his place. He has been increasingly incoherent since he has become a part of the Obama administration, he is making Cohen look like a hawk lately. When he came out for cuts in missile defense I was dumbfounded. Given current events that seems unwise, no?

I do wonder if this latest position shift has something to do with how the talks went with China? I’m suspect that whatever Obama wanted from China, he didn’t get. They are pretty angry at him about his ruinous economic policies, such as running the dollar bill printing presses at max capacity, 24/7.

Bah…I think they need to call Kim’s bluff and say if the North Koreans are no longer going to honor the terms of the ceasefire then technically the US and North Korea are at war and that the US will commence strategic bombing operations asap unless North Korea agrees to the terms of a new ceasefire agreement.

Failing that North Korea should be blockaded and embargoed to prevent them from selling their weapons tech to hostile countries like Iran and deny them a source of income. If China has a problem with that then we just allow the Japanese to beef up their offensive military capabilities which should in turn scare the Chinese into playing ball.

Either way though it looks like the North Koreans have decided that Obama is weak and incapable of taking decisive action, hence their increasingly belligerent and aggressive behaviour. Obama needs make an example of North Korea and deal with this situation as quickly and effectively as possible because if he doesn’t and allows the North Koreans to behave in this fashion with out any real consequences then the next thing you know every tin pot dictator around the world is going to start jacking up and try to take shots at the USA and its allies.

I’m sure glad we have someone like Barry as President. He always maintains a consistent number of stands on major issues. Guess that’s his way of voting ‘PRESENT!’. Anyone else getting the vibe that Barry’s in way over his intellectual pay grade?

Perhaps we’re missing the real point. It is likely that we have not one but two rogue nuclear nations in play, and no I don’t mean Pakistan. We are assuming that the latest nuke was of North Korean origin. Maybe not. It seems just as likely that it was a Iranian test conducted in North Korean facilities since Iran has no other means of conducting such a test sub rosa.

Say, when is Obama going to get on a plane and go talk to these zany North Koreans? I thought that this stuff wasn’t going to be a problem once he was in office and was able to meet all these foreign leaders and tell them that he lived overseas for a couple of years as an adolescent and took a three-week trip when he was in college.

“I don’t think that anybody in the [Obama] administration thinks there is a crisis,” Mr. Gates told reporters aboard his military jet early Friday morning, still Thursday night in Washington.
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Please note that it’s also possible to parse this as Gates saying “Obama and his crew are in deep denial” …

Palin needs to talk about drilling. If we had ANWR and other rich oil fields in Alaska tapped already. Targeting Iran would be a lot easier (not saying easy). If our oil supplies were secure we could implement a a strategy of destroying their economy (no boots on the ground required). Destroy their nuke sites and all oil and refining facilities. Blockade their ports. Defend Israel through missle defense. And then let them wilt.

There is no policy. When he finds something that elicits the least amount of criticism, he’ll use that until it stops working.

Frankly, as “people of color,” I don’t understand why Obama doesn’t appeal to them as brothers bruhs. Why should the race card be only employed domestically? Also, the Israelis haven’t been supportive of N. Korea. Obama could point that out to Kim.

Luckily, Geithner is in China kowtowing to our lenders. (He’s so small he will probably look like a slave when he’s prostrate on the floor of the Chinese emperor’s palace. I so wish I could see that.) Why not send him to Pyongyang so Kim can have sloppy seconds.

It’s quite simple. The teleprompter on the left says they are a threat and the one on the right says they are not a threat. With each swivel of the tennis-official-in-chief’s head between the two, the position changes.

I’m sure glad we have someone like Barry as President. He always maintains a consistent number of stands on major issues. Guess that’s his way of voting ‘PRESENT!’. Anyone else getting the vibe that Barry’s in way over his intellectual pay grade?

China can stop this in an instint. From this article in a Korean English paper:

By normal measures of economic influence, China
has overwhelming and growing power over North Korea. China
accounted for 73 percent of North Korea’s international trade last year, up from less than a third in 2003, according to the Seoul-based Korea Trade & Investment Promotion Agency.

China supplies 90 percent of North Korea’s oil demand, 80 percent of consumer goods and 45 percent of its food, Dong Yong-seung, a researcher on North Korean issues at the Samsung Economic Research Institute in Seoul, said.

Gives credence to what Charles K. said a few days ago (paraphrasing), “China, fix this or the Japanese are joining the nuke club.”

Yeah, Obama could appeal to the NKs as fellow “people of color”. I bet they’d like that…

/sarc

DarkCurrent on May 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM

Truly, this is a distraction for Obama from the task of redressing the balance of power IN THE US. His goal is not to rein in nuclear despots or challenge totalitarianism or prevent international conflict. He sees life through the prism of race, and I’m sure on some level he wonders why the N. Koreans are giving him any kind of problem at all. Frankly, if they’d back off (and the Russians, Iranians, Chinese, Venezuelans, Cubans as well), Obama will gladly do their dirty work for them and bring America to heel. They are making a mistake imo.

China eggs Kim Jong-Il to be a royal pain in Obama’s ass, then starts balking at buying more of our debt. When (not if) The 0 comes begging at China’s door, they tell him, “sure, we’ll put Kim Jong-Il back on our leash, and buy more of your debt. But you have to look the other way on us taking Taiwan.”

President Pantywaist will not allow us to be distracted from his domestic agenda by any imagined foreign threats. To the contrary, Iran and Korea show the pressing importance of nationalizing health care, energy, finance and education sectors… and a global warming tax.

It should never be forgotten that Obama and crew are really Clinton II.

Their approaches will be the same. To create the phony feeling of peace and prosperity threats will be downplayed and actual events will be viewed as criminal proceedings. With that everyone can go back to sleep.

Same on the domestic economic side. Everything bad will be blamed on the proceeding admin, as Clinton relentlessly blamed Reagan/Bush, followed by the ever comfortable government intervention in daily lives. Not to be forgotten will be the continual, perpetual campaign mode of trivial announcements everyday from the White House of initiatives started or completed.

Finally this all gets wrapped up in a pandering neat little package by the MSM every night. Any glitches will/can be blamed on the right wing conspiracy. Laugh all you like but “moderate” repubs are even using it today with great success!

The reason Obama and his cronies do all this flip-flopping is so they can completely ignore the issue while they attend to taking away our liberty. If and when North Korea attacks us or our allies they can still say they were doing everything possible regarding North Korea. They called it a threat to global peace remember? And if nothing comes of North Korea they can say they had the right idea of ignoring them. They said it was just a regional threat remember? And the mainstream media propaganda branch of the government won’t report the divergent statements. Political hackery and scumbaggery at the utmost. Thanks for playing games with American lives Obama. Hope you rot in hell.

Remember when the NoKo’s announced their missile test, and our military wanted to move their missile defense radar into the area to test it out on a real missile, and Obama said, ‘No, we don’t want to do something that might provoke them’?

Not provoke them into doing what? Setting off a nuclear explosion and voiding the 1953 truce?

And I thought it was just one of those small countries that Obama just didn’t see as any real threat to anyone at all… dear me, the White House Waffle House is now doing a grand business.

Why in no time at all we will be hearing about a nuclear neighborhood option, I’m sure… although it will take some waffle flipping to get there, I’m confident that this Administration can come down on all sides of anything whenever it wants to. Not through ‘pragmatism’ or ‘realism’. Just by whimsy. Of course some genies just won’t go into the bottle again… so his promise to stop making and upgrading the US nuclear arsenal also has an expiration date. And it is fast approaching. Probably before the next budget cycle. And the Left will wimper more, unable to call the President on anything… because he *is* one of them… incompetent, incapable, unreasoning, unable to stick to any position save pure opportunism. That bodes ill for the Nation, and the world.

Don’t you people get it yet? It’s not a threat unless Bam needs a crisis. Then it’s a world crisis. There are economic crisis, national crisis and world crisis. They have this on a dart board in the oval office. One ring says not today, one says we’re out of money and another says we need to get the un involved.

“that the Obama administration has covered almost all of the positions on the card.”

Well, that’s the core political strategy, isn’t it?

That way, he can claim to have held any position when telepromtering to one of his many lunatic fringes, knowing full well they don’t pay attention until he opens his mouth to bless them with words and empty promises.

And his base loonies know that he lies all the time about centrist positions. They love that. It proves to them that he is one of them.

The most pathetic aspect of Obama’s administration is that the morons who voted for him will NEVER admit that he is simply incompetant.I can accept someone changing their point of view based on new information,but their is NO new info about the current world crises,eveyone here knew it long ago.Liberalism is indeed a psychological disorder.

Based on New(to me) information(namely follwing the link in the story about Sheriff Joe),I must amend my previous comment.Obama isn’t simply incompetant,he is traitorous.Of course the morons who voted for him will never admit that,either.

Who is going to stand up to and take down these dangerous leaders in the world? I’m talking about Obama by the way. The democrats must face it – with what Obama is doing, nobody will elect another democrat for President for a long long long time.